Monthly Archives: June 2022

On A Meme Mocking Germans For Declaring They Wuz Romanz

Posted on 28/06/2022 by oligomath

the Roman empire got divided and split up among a lot of heirs. even if you take the metaphor seriously (which you shouldn’t) it’s a partible inheritance type situation and anyone claiming primogeniture is being bigheaded about it. i know … Continue reading →

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The Meaning of J.E.D.D’s Power

Posted on 24/06/2022 by oligomath

oh i worked out how JEDD Mason’s religion-reading power worked. people wear their ideologies out in the open, so of course people will also wear their religions, but people will be careful not to notice the outward signs of religion, … Continue reading →

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Christianity is Not Ecological

Posted on 21/06/2022 by oligomath

the Christian worldview is deeply anti-ecological which nobody really wants to draw out at length except a few gaians, and which is only seriously considered either by liberals (who… you know, are liberal about it) or crazy intelligent design / … Continue reading →

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Is Terra Ignota Squeecore?

Posted on 18/06/2022 by oligomath

receiving a disturbing message from the stricken wreck of SF fandom. the signal is mostly nonsense but i heard them say ada palmer was “squeecore” what did she/they mean by this? … on closer inspection of the signals, it seems … Continue reading →

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Pre-Hubble Galactic Astronomy

Posted on 15/06/2022 by oligomath

another funny aspect of the pre-Hubble cosmology is the shape of the milky way. when you have a modern notion of the basic cosmological unit being the galaxy and how there are enough of them that in universe-scale modelling you … Continue reading →

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On Being Asked The Origins of Biblical Homophobia and Whether It Has Its Origins in Sympathetic Fertility Magic

Posted on 14/06/2022 by oligomath

the self-image of israel in the pentateuch is of a pure and godfearing people, and maintaining racial/ritual purity is how Moses makes all his stuff stick if he can’t provide a story of someone being smited. there is remarkably little … Continue reading →

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An Old Disease

Posted on 10/06/2022 by oligomath

lots of people believe in God and they don’t all begome gadolig. especially when someone converts to roman catholicism. and the kind of roman catholicism is a very specific kind, because not even all converts become integralist lunatics these ultra … Continue reading →

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Thought Experiment in Alternia

Posted on 08/06/2022 by oligomath

imagining an alternate universe where the “Is Miscegenation Ethical?” Question didn’t get mostly solved by midcentury but just got worse and worse like certain other Questions until it crashed hard into the current age of Trying to Solve Ethical Dilemmas … Continue reading →

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